asticot
\as.ti.ko\
The verdict
“asticot” is uncommon French (frequency #61,315 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,315
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit ver blanc, servant d’appât pour la pêche et fixé à l’hameçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asticot · asticot · French
asticot · rank #61,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,315
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aspirée
Nearest frequency peer: aspirée (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « asticot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aspartame
aspartame
38,688 corpus weight
- aspirée
aspirée
38,687 corpus weight
- asticot
asticot
38,686 corpus weight
- attenter
attenter
38,684 corpus weight
- attrition
attrition
38,683 corpus weight
- autonomiste
autonomiste
38,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asticot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asticot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.ti.ko\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asticot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asticot is uncommon French at frequency #61,315 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.ti.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for asticot, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is asticot, spelled A-S-T-I-C-O-T.
Definition
- 1Petit ver blanc, servant d’appât pour la pêche et fixé à l’hameçon.
- 2Larve de diptère, de mouche.
- 3Personne qui en asticote une autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asticot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’asticot est l’appât naturel le plus utilisé pour la pêche au coup.
Qu’est-ce que c’est au juste que les asticots funéraires ? − Je connais un peu la question, dit Offroir, l’ayant étudiée avec le savant docteur Mégnin. Ce sont bien en effet, tout au moins durant les premiers temps de la putréfaction, des asticots puisqu’il s’agit de larves de diptères, notamment de Calliphora vomitoria qui n’est autre que la grosse mouch…
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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